Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-31
SISTER REPUBLICS.
A Postal Convention About Completed
with Mexico which will Lower
the Rates of Postage.
The Interstate Commerce Commits.
siOneTs Will Meet To-Day 20 be
Sworn II and Organic.
Important Decision Involving the Land
Upon which this Tow of Ce xeEkaua,
ARK, g Situated.


J CHEAPER POSTAGE TO MEXICO
J Special to the Gazette.
! WASHINGTON, March 30.--s csn be
stated with great deal of pCsitiveuess
that postal convention has been sub
stautially concluded wash the republic of
Mexico, under which postage to and from
Mexico and the United States viii be re-
duced from ) cents, the present rate, to
the rate which now prevails for Canada
This will greatly facilitate com
mercial intercourse between the
two countries, and VIII tighten the
bonds of international cOnity, whiah the
extension of rail connections has estab-
lished, and which the Cutting incident
and other like matters have been entirely
pOWerleSs to disturb. The POstoGice De
partment has elready received g copy of
the convention, and is prepared to carry
it into effect It appears from the re-
cords of that department that the amoGnt
of mail matter carried on the
railroad from Shreveport to Ell Paso,
that is TO say the mail matter
for Texas and Mexico, has increased from
daily average of 1912 pounds in 1881,
before the railroad TO NJ xiCO was opened,
to an average If 421l pounds In 1856.
i Part Of this increase Is, of course, charge
able to the development OF Texas, but
still it also indicates the growing nature
of our commercial intercourse with Mex
leo. This is further made apparent by
the great increase in the consular fees
reported to the Fifth Auditor as collected
on imports from Mexico to the United
! States.
COMING TO TEXAS.
| Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, March 30.-COmmis-
siOner of Agriculture Colman has been
| invited by the Texas Agricultural and
| Mechanical College to deliver the annual
/ address on June before the students,
and he will accep5 if MS public duties
| permit.
IMPORTANT LAND DECISION.
| WAsHIN GTON, March 30 Assistant
Land Commissioner SCocksluger has rem
dertd al important decision IN the land
claim of one Dr.. w. II. Cayce, against
| the 81. Louis, Iron Mountain and South
ern Railroad Company, involving the
| land upon which the town of TrxsFEana,
| Ark, is situated. This tract, with others,
making IG0 acres, was settled upon and
occupied by the widow Nix some
| years before the railrOad grant was made,
and she was a settler thereon with her
family at the date of the grant, and with
drew before the road was definitely
| located. Mrs. Nix proved upon forty
acres only, not having the money TO pay
for the whole 100 acres After
wards the remaining I20 acres
were listed 10 the state for the railroad
company. The grant was made IN 1853,
but no road was built, and in 1866
Congress passed an act reviving and
extending the grant and providing for the
issue of patents TO convey title to the
granted lands. The company has not dis
posed of the land, out claims title
under certifcation. The question was
whether the land was accepted
from the railroad grant. and ESQ whether
the listing 10 the state gave title to the
railroad company. The Assistant Com
missioner holds t3at the land was not
embraced in me railroad grant, bat was
excepted out of il by settlement # Mrs.
Nix, and in view Of the act of 1856 and
recent decision of the Supreme
court in the case of said COM
pany against MCGEE, holding the pro-
visions of the act applicable to
tue original as well as to- subsequent
grants, ne EXPIRE sses the opinion that the
company does not have present title to
the land, and says that il this view should
! be ConCurred IN ny the appetite author
ity the claims Uf Cayce apd of the town
of Trxarkana will De farther contested.
GENERAL NOTES.
WASHINGTON, March 3U.-The Post
master General has issued circular let-
ter 10 the pOstmasterS, calling attention
10 the advantages of the special delivery
system and urging them to commend its
use to the public as worthy of confidence.
It's value, he saws, will grow with the
growth of its business, every increase of
patronage bringing with it the meats Of
increased efficiency.
1t is estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that there has been decrease of
about 81, 900, 900 in the public debt dur
| ing the present month. The receipts so
far this month amount to- S33 235,29 and
| the expenditures TO SIS, 1868, $50, lnclud-
! ing Sc, 735, 2l9 pension payments, q net
gain of receipts over expenditures of
Sl4, 84G, 743.
Pending the selection and preparation
of permanent offices for the use of the
inter-s ate commerce commission, tenn
| porary quarters have been secured with
the United States Geological Survey.
INTERSTATE COMMISSIONERS.
WASHINGTON, March 30.-AA the inter
state commerce commissioners except
Bragg are IN the city tonight. Colonel
Morrison has been here since the adjourn
ment Of Congress, and Mr.. Walker ar
rived during the day, while later trains
brought Judge Cody and MIR.
| SchooHmaker. Captain Bragg is ex-
! pected tomorrow morning. Tomorrow
afternoon at O'Clock, IN accordance
with the suggestion OF the President con
yeyed by letter TO each of the commits
siOners, the latter will assemble in the
| Office of the Secretary of the Interior, re-
Ceive their commissions and be sworn
| into office. What will afterwards be done
| they cannot say. They have not changed
| the time for the consultation. Mr.Walker
| said he had seen none Of MS associates
except Colonel Morrison, and up to
| Q.QO o1c Tpplau had NOT Gpan